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In Jiang's Plato reading, the sun outside the cave is God and initially blinds the freed prisoner.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a difference because god is everywhere and anywhere so like the sun shines everywhere in every spot so you can still feel god for..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a difference because god is everywhere and anywhere so like the sun shines everywhere in every spot so you can still feel god for..."
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A student proposes that the paradox may not matter because God is everywhere and can be felt in every place, like sunlight.
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Jiang confirms the student's summary that Dante's sun shines on everyone, not only on Christians.
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The liberated prisoner leaves the cave for the wilderness, sees the sun as God, and is first blinded by the light.
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The freed prisoner's encounter with sunlight is painful because his eyes are not trained for truth, but he slowly learns to see the beautiful world and the sun as the source of life and truth.
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"...a difference because god is everywhere and anywhere so like the sun shines everywhere in every spot so you can still feel god for..."
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"So, in summary, the idea is like the sun shines on the world and it doesn't just shine on Christians. It shines on everyone."
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"That's what Dante believes. Okay? But what he's going to do later on that is even more revolutionary is say, it's not God's choice..."
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"...cave into the wilderness. Okay? The wilderness. And he sees the sun. And the sun, of course, is God. And at first, he's blinded..."
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"It's the only reality that exists. And they start naming things that they see and that creates language. And they like to play games..."
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"...courage to stare up in the sky and he sees the sun, okay? The sun. And he is amazed by how the sun is..."
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"...that way then it's like ecclesiastes there's nothing new under the sun everything we write in fiction is a real person in the past..."
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"...how when the thick damp vapors once begin to thin, the sun's fear passes feebly through them, then your imagination will be quick to..."
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"...still until it faces what it wants. But even as the sun becomes so strong, defeats our vision, veiling its own form. So there..."
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"...basin gleaming new and counter course it crossed those paths the sun ignites when those in rome can see it set between the corsicans..."
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"...you would climb above as soon as he has seen the sun shed light on us again then tell us where the passage lies..."
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"...crippled her complexion sallow i looked at her and just as sun revives cold limbs that night made numb so did my gaze lose..."
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